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From Henry Van Horn to Robert Van Horn and Adela Van Horn
[page 1]
May 9th 1861
Deare Robert and Adela
this dreded deficulty has caused anxiety amongst us respecting your situation[.] if the safty of Adella and the boys is insecure send them on[,] thel bee gladly recvd[.] our Simpathy for Dulaware[,] Kentucky and Moe. is Strong and [MS. illegible] Mariland and Virginia till the Baltimore Riot and Virginia deception[.] now there so Exasperated theil hardly do whats Right[.]
the North as far as my information extends was indiffent on the subject for the [they] Ware confident of a Compromise satisfactory to both sides[.] now there excitement is such [text stricken through] that I beleive very few from 25 to 60 but would go if the [they] Done Cauld [called][.]

This letter, dated May 9 - May 27, 1861, is from Henry Van Horn in Missouri to his son Robert and his wife Adela. Van Horn writes about the commencement of the War: ""there is one Regiment ready to organize and march now and there is part of a second one forming."" He also tells his family that an acquaintance, B.M. Warin, was killed when a threshing machine exploded.

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From Henry Van Horn to Robert Van Horn and Adela Van Horn
[page 1]
May 9th 1861
Deare Robert and Adela
this dreded deficulty has caused anxiety amongst us respecting your situation[.] if the safty of Adella and the boys is insecure send them on[,] thel bee gladly recvd[.] our Simpathy for Dulaware[,] Kentucky and Moe. is Strong and [MS. illegible] Mariland and Virginia till the Baltimore Riot and Virginia deception[.] now there so Exasperated theil hardly do whats Right[.]
the North as far as my information extends was indiffent on the subject for the [they] Ware confident of a Compromise satisfactory to both sides[.] now there excitement is such [text stricken through] that I beleive very few from 25 to 60 but would go if the [they] Done Cauld [called][.]